God Bought Me This Expensive Crap

…with his American Express Platinum card. Yeah, right. This week, a friend of mine was talking about something she saw on a couple of her friends’ statuses [on our favorite social network site]. The first was a person thanking God for her child who had suffered a significant health crisis and although she was not…

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The Ring Isn’t Wrong

It was not the best day. It was Trinity Sunday and I felt highly incompetent trying to ‘explain’ the unexplainable in a sermon. If you ever want to have your intellect humbled, try to explain the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, one God, The Holy Trinity without committing heresy and do so in under fifteen…

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Beautiful Distractions

Came across an article here about a young man who was escorted out of a worship service because his “disability” became a “distraction.” Worth a read and a ponder. It is interesting that I came across this article now because I’ve been thinking about just this kind of issue as of late. The intern I…

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The Untame Holy Spirit

I came upon this post quite by accident this morning while looking for something else entirely and I found something about it to be quite profound.  This line in particular “And perhaps mercy and creation aren’t really that different.” There’s some really good stuff there about mercy and what we Lutherans might call grace. It is well…

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